The application procedure for places at our partner universities applies to all partnerships.

Start of application period: 01. December
Application deadline: 31. January

The application is for the upcoming academic year (winter and summer semester).

Required documents for the application via our application portal:

• current transcript of records (the date of the transcript cannot be older than the opening of the application process). You can export your transcript of records as pdf from HIS. The majority of our students study abroad in their fourth to sixth semester. In case you are in your first semester at the FH Westküste University of Applied Sciences and you don’t have any marks in your HIS account yet when the application deadline is reached, you can alternatively hand in the report(s) you used for your application for enrolment.

Allocation criteria:
In the application form, you can specify up to three preferred partner universities. The International Office first processes all first, then second, then third wishes during the selection process. One wish is a partner university. For partner universities with several locations, the desired locations can be specified, which are stored in the Student Exchange Publisher. Several requests for a partner university, e.g. first wish "FH Legoland Hamburg", second wish "FH Legoland Paris" are not permitted and only the highest-ranking wish will be considered in the selection process (in the example: "FH Legoland Hamburg"). 

The planned crediting of modules (see above) will be prioritized in principle. Then the applications will be processed according to the following criteria:

1. the contract with the partner university. With this being said when there is the information in the publisher, that the partner university is open to various courses of study, but prefers students from a specific one, then the contract was made for this course of study and students from the named other programmes are tolerated if there is spare capacity.
2. Is the semester abroad mandatory and needed for a successful graduation (e.g. if your internship semester is in Germany, but you need to spend a mandatory stay abroad in order to graduate)? This is asked in the application form and will be checked by the international office on a sample basis.
3. Your grade point average stated in the transcript of records.

As the selection procedure is complex and needs to be carried out quickly, the international office cannot take into consideration that applicants wish go to the same university or place as other students.

In individual cases, you can apply for spots at partner universities which are still open after the deadline has passed. The international office decides individually if an application can still be processed after the deadline. This depends on the availability of spots, nomination and application deadlines of the partner university and the required time for the evaluation and processing of applications. Applications which were handed in before the deadline, and the process for applications before the deadline itself are always treated with preference. The information regarding available spots will be activated in our publisher after the finalization of the general allocation round. In order to apply to open spots please use the same online form as explained in Application for places at partner universities. Your application will be checked and you will get a reply from the international office if a nomination is still possible.

In any other terms, the application procedure for remaining places at partner universities does not differ from the regular procedure.

You can apply for one place per semester (example: winter semester 2024/25). If you already have a place at a partner university, you cannot apply again for the same semester, even if you apply in different application procedures. Your additional application wouldn’t be processed in this case. If you still want to apply for another place, you will have to give back the place you already received by sending an e-mail to the international office. In principal, applications will only be processed if you don’t have a place already for the same period of time.

To prevent that messages we will send you via the application system (MoveON) may be filtered away by your e-mail programme, please save noreply(at)west.moveon4.de (MoveOn FH Westküste) to the address book of the e-mail provider you use (e.g. web.de, gmx, outlook.com etc.). You will be contacted by the e-mail-address you gave in the application form.

You can fill in and turn in your learning agreement prior to applying. Once you send in your application, you confirm that you turned in your learning agreement to your course of study (head or coordinator) or that you didn’t hand in your learning agreement, because a recognition of your achievements abroad is not planned. The learning agreement does not have to be signed yet by your course of study neither does it have to be uploaded at the moment of your application. The deadlines for the completion of your learning agreement are defined in the current examination procedure regulations and their implementation regulations (in general 3 months before the start of the exchange semester or, in case of changes, as soon as changes become known).